Example sentences of "[verb] [art] longest [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The column width has been increased to accommodate the longest label .
2 One particular family in Cotherstone must be able to claim the longest aggregate of service to the Fields , amounting to some hundreds of years .
3 Popescu , a former propaganda chief , and Totu , a former Foreign Minister , were given the longest prison sentences , of 5@1/2 years each , while the others received sentences of two to 4@1/2 years .
4 Although they were not the first to do so , they became the longest running and , presumably , most successful pin manufacturers in the Painswick area .
5 The flaws are only minor cracks in the huge achievement of Brook and his collaborator Jean-Claude Carriere in bringing the longest poem in the world to television , to explore and exploit its illusions in gripping narrative and dazzling images.H.H .
6 The year before the Baptists had sent a telegram to Queen Victoria congratulating her on completing the longest reign in British history .
7 JACKY Durand , 25 , one of the lesser known French professionals , produced the longest escape in the history of the Tour of Flanders yesterday to win the 164 miles Belgian classic at Meerbeke .
8 The 55 week interval represents the longest time that any patient remained in the trial .
9 Could you kidnap Frank Bruno , make the longest candle or design the world 's largest Christmas cracker ?
10 Between Haweswater and the rest of the Lake District lies the longest range of hills in the Lake District above 2,000ft .
11 Baltusrol is unusual in many respects , most notably that it contains the longest hole in championship golf , the 630 yard 17th .
12 As always , it 's something very small that has the longest discussion property , and it was at personnel .
13 Each city has its own specialities — Rome has the longest shopping street in Europe .
14 Red has the longest wavelength of visible light , and violet the shortest .
15 Red light has the longest wavelength and violet the shortest , with orange , yellow , green and blue in between .
16 I am delighted that the recently privatised Harland and Wolff now has the longest order book in its history , with £565 million worth of orders , that it is competing successfully with the Koreans and the Japanese , that the future of 2,500 of its people is assured and that it is the premier shipyard in the United Kingdom .
17 Each format has its own cassette design ( anticlockwise from top ) : VHS is the largest in size and has the longest runtime of up to four hours ( PAL ) ; VHS-C cassettes are more compact but the runtime is reduced to a maximum of 1 ½ hours ( Long Play ) ; Video 8 has the smallest cassettes but runs for up to four hours ( LP ) .
18 The US has the longest tradition of natural gas use of any country in the world .
19 SWELTERWEIGHT Fender Champ 25SE Fender 's new Champ 25SE has the longest reach , boasts the biggest biceps and packs the heftiest punch of any previous incarnation of the model .
20 Cardiac surgery has the longest waiting list in Northern Ireland , but every effort is being made to reduce it , including the purchase of operations in Britain .
21 These are not , furthermore , isolated examples ; in scene four , Anderson has the longest turn ( 86 words compared with the next longest , McKendrick 's 47 ) as he does in the final scene ( 53 words against McKendrick 's 14 ) .
22 She , the ‘ bootlace ’ of Latin America , has the longest coastline of any country on the Pacific — 3,317 miles , longer by far than the entire Pacific coastline of Australia , which is a mere 2,450 miles from Cape York to Tasmania .
23 The first mode p = 1 represents translation of the molecule as a whole and has the longest relaxation time τ 1 because the maximum number of co-ordinated segmental movements are involved .
24 Despite my files tellin me this month has the longest list of genre titles , it is the one with least to offer .
25 Dimensions — The Clio feels like a larger car to drive because it has the longest wheelbase and widest track in its class .
26 When this is established ( it may be the empty string ) the tail list is searched to find the longest string available from the remaining part of the word ( i.e. the word minus the head string ) .
27 Licio Gelli , former head of the banned P2 masonic lodge , and his assistant Umberto Ortolani received the longest sentences , of 18 years and six months and 19 years respectively .
28 In what became known as the ‘ City trial of the century ’ , Saunders received the longest prison sentence of five years .
29 The effect of using the Fast Best Fit option on a range is to make every column accommodate the longest entry — be it a label or a number — without any spaces to spare .
30 That casts the longest shadow ,
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